Re: [Evolution] Save sent messages in a chosen folder

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > It may depend on your IMAP server and particular configuration options 
> > but I wouldn't count on Evolution performing better than Thunderbird.
> >
> > The last time I used Evolution was on Fedora 27 (so it was a recent 
> > build) on a test computer with a nice old 5,200 RPM hard drive. I asked 
> > it to load a folder of 12,000 messages and it was SO SLOW I had to abort 
> > and reran it with libeatmydata because Evolution was sending a 
> > continuous stream of fsync calls for sqlite databases.
>
> I assume that by "load a folder" you're referring to indexing a folder
> of previously unseen messages. This is an operation you will only
> rarely perform in real life, so I'm not sure how relevant the test is.
> I have several IMAP folders that are much larger than this (e.g. the
> Evolution list of over 17,000 messages or the Fedora Users list of over
> 40,000) and notice no performance problem at all. I'm also on Fedora 27
> and my /home is on a conventional 7200rpm drive.
Yeah, there are problems with Evolution, but I've never really classed
"performance" as being one of them.

P.